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DAYS TO
CHRISTMAS
Don’t feed ’em next week
Beginning Monday, people will not
have to put money in parking meters
through Christmas.
City Commissioners announced the
plan at their meeting Tuesday night.
The commissioners today joined in
urging people who operate businesses
downtown to insist their employes not
to use the street parking spaces so they
will be available for shoppers during
the windup week of Christmas buying.
Employes have been urged to park
Paralysis scare
halts swine shots
ATLANTA (UPI) — Clara Ruth
Jarrett was 48 and, according to her
husband, had “never been sick a day in
her life” until 12 days after she got her
swine flu shot Less than a month later
she was dead.
• Today, the government’s $135 million
swine flu immunization program is in
suspension while federal health of
ficials try to determine if there is any
link between the vaccine and the
unusual form of paralysis that killed
Mrs. Jarrett and four other persons —
all recipients of swine flu shots.
About 40 million citizens — less than
30 per cent of the eligible adult
People
...and things
Kindergarten children getting more
and more excited as Christmas nears.
Man and two dogs hunting rabbits
south of town.
Mother and dad planning big
Christmas, all eight children coming
home for it.
Sheet metal
will locate
in Griffin
United Sheet Metal of Columbus,
Ohio, plans to announce formally next
week the location of operations in
Griffin in the old KVP building on
Kalamazoo drive.
The building later was occupied by
Holan of Griffin.
Carl Robinson, president of United
Sheet Metal, working with the Chamber
of Commerce and local governments,
will announce specifics of the operation
next week.
The firm has purchased the building
where it will locate.
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Dr. William Foege, assistant
director of the CDC In Atlanta
answering questions to
newsmen after he announced
that the swine flu immunization
program haa been suspended.
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their cars in one of the off street
metered lots.
The city said meter maids would be
on the lookout for long term parkers
downtown and ticket cars which have
been on a street parking spot for two
hours or more.
The free parking policy will begin
Monday, Dec. 20, and run through the
Christmas week.
Drivers will have to begin putting
money in meters again on Monday,
Dec. 27.
population — received the vaccine
before the program was abruptly
suspended Thursday.
Officials of the Center for Disease
Control and the Health, Education and
Welfare Department said they called a
halt to vaccinations because of statisti
cal relationships between persons
receiving vaccine and the incidence of a
paralysis called Guillain-Barre syn
drome.
In announcing the suspension, Dr.
David Sencer, director of CDC, said an
intensive two-day survey turned up 94
cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome in 14
states. Os those, 51 had received swine
flu shots within one to three weeks of
the onset of paralysis; 31 had not been
vaccinated and the status of the
remaining 12 was uncertain
From those statistics, a CDC official
said, the chances are 7 in 1 million that
a person who has received the vaccine
will contract Guillain-Bare syndrome,
as opposed to 2 in a million for the
unvaccinated.
There was no mention of fatalities in
either the announcement or in the
ensuing news conference. Sencer said,
“We are not able with the available
data to rule out the possibility of an
association” between Guillain-Barre
syndrome and the vaccine.
When Ohio state health officials
mentioned two fatalities from the
They want Doc’s body
VALDOSTA, Ga. (UPI) - Fifteen
surviving relatives of gunslinger Doc
Holliday have begun legal moves to
bring his remains back to his native
Valdosta nearly a century after the
former dentist died of tuberculosis.
The relatives, all cousins, initiated
the move after learning that John
Henry Holliday’s gravesite in Glen
wood, Colo., was sometimes used as a
rifle target or a motorcycle jumpramp.
One of the relatives is Valdosta at
torney Lamar Tillman who said he had
contacted authorities in Colorado for
procedures on having Holliday’s body
Georgia cases being investigated
ATLANTA (UPI) — Depending on
whether Center for Disease Control
researchers link swine influenza with a
rare form of paralysis which has taken
five lives across the nation, the Georgia
iimoculation program may pick back
up where it left off — “near the end of
the line.”
Four Georgians have possibly con
tracted the Gullain-Barre’ paralysis
disease currently under investigation
by the CDC to determine if the illness is
linked to swine influenza im
munizations.
Dr. Charles Mosher, head of the state
inoculation program, declined Thur
sday night to identify the victims of the
paralysis or where they live but said
they had received swine influenza
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syndrome, Assistant Secretary for
Health Dr. Theodore Cooper told
reporters in Washington there had been
four deaths — all among those who had
been vaccinated. Asked why it was not
announced earlier, he said, “It didn’t
occur to me that it was necessary to say
it”
Later, Utah health officials reported
they had discovered a fifth death. One
was reported in Minnesota and one —
Mrs. Jarrett — in Alabama. Mrs.
Jarrett was the only victim identified.
Reports that Guillain-Barre syn
drome was occuring among the vac
cinated first appeared Tuesday. On
Wednesday, the CDC announced “there
doesn’t appear to be any association.”
Guillain-Barre syndrome usually
begins as a rapidly developing
weakness in the legs, then in the hands
and arms and finally the trunk, neck
and face. It is a poorly understood,
often misdiagnosed illness frequently
preceded by a pulmonary disorder.
Ninety per cent of its victims recover
completely, CDC officials said, 5 per
centare left with “some weakness” and
5 per cent die.
It is not as bad as swine flu, they
insisted. Dr. William Foege, assistant
director of CDC, said the program
would be halted at least three weeks
while officials make an intensive
statistical survey.
exhumed and moved here.
But Colorado officials have accused
the group of seeking the remains as a
tourist attraction, noting that Presi
dent-elect Jimmy Carter’s hometown of
Plains is near Valdosta.
Efforts to reclaim the body of Doc
Holiday will be of interest to Grifflnltes,
since the nortorious gunslinger once
practiced as a dentist in Griffin. His
father was clerk of Superior Court of
Spalding County.
immunizations.
Four unidentified persons, including
one Albania woman, have died of the
paralysis, the CDC confirmed Thur
sday night. A fifth was reported by
health officials in Utah.
However, CDC officials stressed they
had not yet proved a link between
Guillain-Barre and swine influenza
inoculations, but teams of researchers
were working “day and night” in this
latest of crises to hit the national im
munization program.
“I must stress these cases (in
Georgia) have not yet been fully in
vestigated,” Dr. Mosher said.
He said if the CDC determines there
was no link in the paralysis deaths and
inoculations, the program would
Oil prices squabble
DOHA, Qatar (UPI) — Saudi Arabian
Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmed Zaki
Yamani said today his nation will in
crease the price of its oil by 5 per cent
Jan. 1 and increase its production, a
move that would in effect curb higher
price hikes sought by other oil
producers.
Yamani said his nation, by far the
largest producer in the 13-member
Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries, would lift all its production
ceilings — in effect driving down the
price of oil.
He predicted the 11 OPEC nations
who have said they will increase prices
by 10 per cent Jan. 1 would not be able
to sustain that amount and that the
expected increase would be no more
than 5 per cent.
Yamani said that in exchange for
Saudi Arabia’s moderation, he expects
“an appreciation” from the West —
progress at the North-South talks
between rich and poor countries in
Paris and a solution to the Arab-Israeli
crisis.
The North-south conference was
scheduled to resume after the
inauguration of U.S. President-elect
Jimmy Carter.
Asked what he would do if oil com
panies flood the market with Saudi
Arabian crude, Yamani replied, “I will
wish them good luck.”
Yamani avoided saying this meant a
breakup of the 13-member oil cartel
which has stuck together since 1960.
The United Arab Emirates will join
Saudi Arabia in applying a 5 per cent
increase valid through 1977.
The two countries together produce
about one-third of OPEC’s oil and have
a capacity to produce much more.
The other countries said they hike
their prices 15 per cent on July 1.
The majority of countries here rallied
around Iran’s call for a 15 per cent
increase to offset the effects of Western
inflation, which OPEC’S economic
commission said had increased the
price of industrial goods 26.9 per cent
since the last 10 per cent oil price in
crease in October, 1975.
Although Saudi Arabia has been in
close contact with the U.S. ad
ministration-designate in recent days,
Yamani said Washington had not put
pressure on him.
“An increase of more than 5 per cent
now would be harmful for the world
economy,” Yamani said. “The world
recovery now is much less than it was
earlier in 1976. There are reports of a
recession. Why should we take part in
this?”
Translated into American purchasing
terms, a 5 per cent increase would
mean an average increase of one cent a
gallon on the cost of gasoline and
heating oil, according to estimates by
U.S. Commerce Secretary Elliot
Richardson.
resume but it was already “near the
end of the line” when reports of the
deaths were confirmed Thursday night.
The CDC’s head epidemiologist said
the Guillane-Barre Syndrome itself
rarely kills people, but death results
from “complications.”
“The disease itself does not usually
kill anybody, it is the complications
which develop which kill people,” said
Dr. Philip Brachman.
Brachman also said elderly people
are more likely to develop com
plications from the syndrome.
He said four deaths out of a reported
94 cases of Guillane-Barre was an
average death rate, but Brachman said
he expected the CDC was not aware of
additional cases of the syndrome.
Saudi Arabia
may curb hikes
Vol. 104 No. 299
SECTION 27. SCHESUIf OF IMS. Th* ncheduJe of business 1
fees or occupation taxes is b-i- by fixed, levied and asti'-ssed i.,i tin
aid under the terns and carfit i ns as follows:
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TAX HJSNS
SIC CLASS TYPE_
51 1 (1) ABATTOIR or wholesale neat products
73 2 (?) ADDING MA2HINI., ‘lYi LWR.ni’R or any other busi;
ness n«U.R< : a ■ r a,ten’, including
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CUlars.
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(a) V;«xi ; : ~n < ,; b t ing the business
M ol adv-rtis.iiig by painted, posted
Jl 4 or j-r Rt.-d, on I i tlb.-.r-fe cr otherwise.
AdWtil ihg with displays for Sales or
hire by a:sy >n --n uagens, a>iß«i-h:i 1- s>,
Be or oilier vehicles.
(c) Displays <ti bui' lings , in w win-twe, ■
, r by pirad--, music or jsiblic announc-went,
§ 4ft or otlrrwirxt on the roads of the unin-
corporvrted urea of the county by any cir
cus or other public entertainment ccunpany
or tent shew, for each appearance
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Taxes
Spalding County Commissioners today continued to pour
over a draft of proposed businesses licenses. They have
been working on them several weeks. The commissioners
were moving carefully today, almost line by line, as they
worked to get the 1977 licenses in shape.
Ford lashes
oil hikes
WASHINGTON (UPI) — President
Ford today denounced as “irrespon
sible” the decision by a majority of oil
exporting nations to raise oil prices by
10 per cent.
Ford said the action by most mem
bers of the Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countires should remind
Americans “of the need to take urgent
action” to conserve and develop U.S.
energy resources.
He praised Saudi Arabia and the
United Arab Emirates, which chose to
raise their oil prices by only 5 per cent.
“Unfortunately, however, the
majority of OPEC members, citing
artificial economic justifications and
ignoring the destructive consequences
of their actions, chose to take a course
which can only be termed irrespon
sible,” Ford said in a statement
released by the White House.
Federal Energy Administrator
Frank Zarb told UPI that the Saudis
have the power to force most other
producing nations to charge the lower
price. He said there the disagreement
over price could eventually break up
OPEC.
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“Strong opposition doesn't
cause defeat as often as weak
support.”
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 65, low
today 32, high yesterday 60, low
yesterday 45, high tomorrow in upper
60s, low tonight in mid 30.
FORECAST: Fair and cool tonight.
Sunny and warm tomorrow.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Fair
Sunday and Monday with increasing
cloudiness and chance of rain Tuesday.
“To the extent there was any in
crease at all, I still think that it was
wrong.” Zarb said. “Even a 5 per cent
increase at this time would not be
helpful to the world economy.
“Beyond that, it’s fairly clear that the
Saudis assisted by the United Arab
Emirates recognize the ... economic
consequences and as a result not only
pursued a course of moderation but
insisted on it," Zarb said.
Zarb said the economic impact of the
hike would probably fall between one
and two pennies a gallon for U.S.
gasoline and heating oil consumers.
Other U.S. officials estimated that
the cost of UJS. oil imports probably
will climb about $7 billion next year as a
result of the price increase. They es
timated there will be an increase of
about 8.5 per cent in the total price for
American consumers.
Mail delivery
on Christmas eve
The Griffin Post Office will provide
full service on Friday, Christmas Eve,
and will make a double effort to see that
all mail, especially packages, are
delivered, according to Postmaster Jim
Chappell.
Windows will be open until the usual
closing time at 5 p.m. Food stamps will
be sold during the normal hours of 10
a.m. to 3 p.m, he said.
Saturday, Christmas Day, will be
observed as a holiday with only special
delivery messages and perishables
being delivered. No residential,
business or rural delivery will be
provided.
The same schedule will be in effect
for the New Year's weekend, Chappell
said.